Issue of the Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club (vol. 25, no. 1, 1941) built around Martin Weinberger's article on silk weaves of Lucca and Venice as shown in contemporary painting and sculpture. Weinberger questions the attribution of early Italian silks to Lucca. He compares fabric patterns in works by Simone Martini, Orcagna, Pisanello, the Bellinis, Gentile da Fabriano, Crivelli and the Wilton Diptych with surviving silk fragments, tracing Byzantine, Chinese, West Islamic, Persian and Venetian influences. Plates pair paintings with textile fragments. The issue also has Club Notes covering the 1941 meetings (lectures on the kaftan and on Spanish influence in folk art, a visit to The Cloisters), obituaries of three board members, and a list of directors.

Type

Periodical

Date

1941

Language

English

Pages

33